Galactica.com - Regifting Across the Galaxy

By Jennifer Godwin , usaweekend.com, on 05-12-2006

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"Don't shake the iguana," teases Battlestar Galactica heartthrob Jamie Bamber as his co-star Katee Sackhoff rattles a prop present.

"I found it by the side of the road, and I'm regifting it to you," he continues, as Sackhoff giggles. The goofy mood at our shoot is a perfect escape for the stars, who onscreen live in the series' grim futuristic world as Apollo (Bamber) and Starbuck (Sackhoff), tormented fighter pilots who battle killer robots.

Sci Fi's addictive show (which airs Fridays, 9 p.m. ET) borrows Cylons and character names from the original '70s series and moves them to a fractured universe where machines look like supermodels and humans are on the verge of extinction.

Explains Sackhoff: "We've been calling it The West Wing in space. It's a political drama set in a time of war, so it's very reminiscent of what's going on in the world right now." Bamber describes the show as "kind of a Frankenstein story, about the demons that you create coming back to bite you."

There's never been a holiday season, and thus no regifting, in the show's Twelve Colonies, but Bamber might try it out here on Earth. "You get these goody bags at Hollywood parties, full of useful regifting material," he says. "I got one that had a nice picture frame in it. That might find its way into someone's stocking this year. "A frame is nice, Apollo, but it's no iguana ...

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